Abstract

A REVIEW ON INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS AND THEIR ROLE IN WOUND HEALING ACTIVITY

Ajay Mandal*, Mrunal Sene P and R.K. Jugeswor Mangang

Abstract

Plants and their extracts have immense potential for the management and treatment of wounds. These natural agents induce healing and regeneration of the lost tissue by multiple mechanisms. Wounds are inescapable events in life. Wounds may arise due to physical, chemical, microbial agents or immunological damage to the tissue. Healing of wounds is one of the important areas of clinical medicines explained in many Ayurvedic texts. Ayurveda, describes various herbs, fats, oils and minerals with anti-aging as well as wound healing properties. Wound healing is a process by which tissue regeneration occurs. Plants and their extracts have immense potential for the management and treatment of wounds. These phytomedicines are not only cheap and affordable but are also safe. The presence of wide range of life-sustaining constituents in plants has urged scientists to examine these plants with a view to determine potential wound healing properties. Hence in the current review a list of the plants used in traditional medicine for the treatment of wounds were screened. It is a beneficial work for researchers to provide many details about the wound healing herbs and development of safe and effective and globally accepted herbal drugs for cuts and wounds.

Keywords: Wound healing, Phytoconstituents, Traditional uses, Medicinal Plants, Pharmacological actions.